Sunday, March 1, 2009

Quick, deadline is 7 p.m. tonight!


Greetings Gossip Lover,

You only have a few hours. So stop cruising the web and get to the Music Hall, before 7 tonight, Sunday, March 1. Hurry! Trust me! Go!

There’s still one more performance of “Sweeney Todd,” the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, live by NETworks Presentation LLC.

This production of Stephen Sondheim’s shiver and laugh inducing “killer” musical is masterfully staged. The incredible vision by John Doyle, original director and designer, epitomizes what art lovers refer to when they say art can transport and transform.

The set, sound, lighting and costuming is perfect down to every sparingly-used touch of red. And the performers! They are actor, vocalist AND the orchestra – they even swap off instruments. You just have to see how this is put together. This is storytelling at its very best.

I’m going to stop writing, so I can post and you can get off your fanny and mosey downtown. You WILL thank me.

Yours in snap decisions that pay off!
Gossip Lady

2 comments:

  1. i can't believe you got to go! i'm so jelous, that was the day i returned from LA so i wasn't able to get tickets. most of my friends went as well. you'll have to tell me how it was

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  2. Not sure who you are, but I can tell you, it was magnificent! Truly. I just had a phone conversation with an artist who was performing out of town and also missed it. She'd seen the version on PBS, and was very sorry she missed it as well. TV can never affect you the way a live performance does. Impossible. Even large screen.
    And watching performers play as the orchestra AND the characters, skilled as actors, musicians and vocalists! - Well an artistic high, incredibly inspiring.
    Thanks for writing!!
    G Lady

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